Latest Fact-Checks In Children

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Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
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By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 a speech.
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
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By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Jeremiah Samples
Jeremiah Samples
stated on February 28, 2019 testimony before the West Virginia state Senate
"We have had an increase of 67 percent (in) the number of children taken into state custody since 2014."
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By Catherine Harrington, Madison Weaver • April 3, 2019
Children at Risk
Children at Risk
stated on March 19, 2019 a press conference
"Right now, only 11 percent of the 15,000 child care providers in Texas are certified as meeting quality standards."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • March 22, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on November 9, 2018 a tweet
"As of September 2018, there are 6,683 WV children in foster care — 1,415 of whom are legally eligible for adoption."
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By Matt Minard • January 10, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on August 16, 2018 a public forum
"Special education categorical aid" from the state "hasn’t been raised in over a decade."
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By D.L. Davis • September 20, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on September 12, 2018 campaign ad
Says Dino Rossi "stripped" health care "from 45,000 children."
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By Manuela Tobias • September 18, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 21, 2018 an interview
Says Donald Trump's executive order "doesn't address the over 2,000 children who are already separated from their parents, and it doesn't change the fact that we would be jailing children with their families."  
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June 22, 2018
Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham
stated on May 18, 2018 a Facebook post
"So far this year, more students have been killed in schools than soldiers in combat zones."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018
Committee of Austin's Children PAC
Committee of Austin's Children PAC
stated on September 24, 2017 a handout in advance of November 2017 vote on a bond proposition
Says a proposed $1.05 billion Austin school district bond proposition "will require no tax rate increase."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 22, 2017 a town hall in Monett, Mo.
"We’re the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t have paid maternity leave."
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By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman • September 28, 2017
James Peterson
James Peterson
stated on June 23, 2017 a ruling from the bench
 "Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive confinement than the youth at Lincoln Hills."
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By Alan Hovorka • August 18, 2017
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission
North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.
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By Will Doran • January 27, 2017
Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier
stated on December 14, 2016 a tweet
"Since the Sandy Hook tragedy, more than seven children PER DAY have died from gun violence."
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By Chris Nichols • December 27, 2016
Baker Harrell
Baker Harrell
stated on August 15, 2016 an interview with the Texas Tribune
"Seventy percent of all Texans are overweight or obese."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016
John Carter
John Carter
stated on March 10, 2016 a commentary published in the Round Rock Leader
"This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations."
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By Nicole Barrios • May 4, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on March 8, 2016
"Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition."
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By Cassie Owens • March 18, 2016
Anthony Rendon
Anthony Rendon
stated on March 7, 2016 a news conference
California "cut about $1.3 billion in child care (during the recession). We’ve only reinvested about $300 million."
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By Chris Nichols • March 17, 2016
Jill Vogel
Jill Vogel
stated on January 27, 2016 legislative hearing.
In Virginia, "people are going and getting marriage licenses who are 12 and 13, and 14 and 15 years old."
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By Sean Gorman • February 8, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 19, 2016 a speech
"According to the most recent report, Wisconsin’s high school graduation rates are also up again -- to third best in the country."  
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January 22, 2016
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